Comrade Ba Jin, a renowned literary master at home and abroad, an outstanding social activist, a famous patriotic Democrat without party affiliation, a close friend of China's * * * production party, vice chairman of the 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 1th National Committee of China People's Political Consultative Conference and chairman of Chinese Writers Association, died in Shanghai on October 17th, 25 at the age of 11.
Comrade Ba Jin, formerly known as Li Yaotang, is a tall man with pen names such as Wang Wenhui, Ouyang Jingrong, Huang Shuhui and Yu Yi. Born in Chengdu, Sichuan on November 25th, 194. Under the influence of the great May 4th Movement which broke out in 1919, he began to read a lot of progressive books and periodicals such as New Youth, and gradually accepted progressive ideas such as anti-imperialism, anti-feudalism, science and democracy. In 192, he entered Chengdu Foreign Languages College, gained extensive contact with western literature and social science works, and participated in the work of Half Moon magazine and some progressive social activities. In February, 1922, he published 12 poems "The Cry of the Abused" in the Journal of Literature, and began his brilliant literary creation career. In the winter of 1922, he graduated from preparatory and undergraduate classes (English) in Chengdu Foreign Languages College. He went to Shanghai to study in 1923, was admitted to the Middle School Attached to Nanjing Southeast University in 1924, and engaged in social activities and compilation work in Shanghai after graduating from high school in 1925. In January 1927, he went to Paris, France to study. During my stay in France, on the one hand, I read a lot of western philosophy and literary works; On the other hand, he always cares about the fate of the motherland and misses the suffering country and people. With this deep feeling, he wrote the first novel "Death" against the dark forces, which was first published under the pseudonym of "Ba Jin" in Fiction Monthly in 1929, causing widespread concern inside and outside the literary world. In December 1928, he returned to Shanghai from France. During this period, Kropotkin's Ethics, Tolstoy's Death of Dandong, Gorky's Story of the Grassland and many other foreign literary, ideological and cultural works were translated. Subsequently, he devoted himself to literary creation with great enthusiasm, wrote novels such as Home, Spring, Trilogy of Love, novella The Dead Sun, and published several short story collections such as Revenge and Light. In 1933, he participated in the work of the special issue of literature. He studied Japanese in Japan from 1934 to 1935. After returning to China, he served as the editor-in-chief of Cultural Life Publishing House in Shanghai. He spent a lot of time and energy on editing and publishing, supported the creation of many progressive writers, and made indelible contributions to the development of progressive literature and art. After the full-scale outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in 1937, he served as the editorial board of jiuwang daily hosted by Guo Moruo, and edited Scream (later renamed Beacon) magazine together with Mao Dun, during which he wrote many poems full of patriotic passion. After 1938, he worked in publishing in Guangzhou, Shanghai, Kunming, Chongqing, Guilin, Chengdu and other places, and published the novel Fire (trilogy) to promote the war of resistance against Japan, and completed the creation of novels such as Autumn, Resting Garden, The Fourth Ward and Cold Night. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he returned to Shanghai and continued his publishing and translation work in Cultural Life Publishing House. In July 1949, he attended the National Congress of Chinese Writers and Artists held in Beijing and was elected as a member of the All-China Federation of Literary and Art Circles. On the eve of the founding of New China, as a representative of the All-China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, he attended the first plenary session of the China People's Political Consultative Conference.
After the founding of New China, Comrade Ba Jin successively served as editor-in-chief of Pingming Publishing House, editor-in-chief of Literary Monthly, Harvest and Shanghai Literature, vice-chairman and honorary chairman of Shanghai Federation of Literary and Art Circles, vice-chairman of East China Writers Association, chairman and honorary chairman of Shanghai Writers Association, vice-chairman of Shanghai CPPCC, vice-chairman and chairman of China Writers Association, and honorary member of China Federation of Literary and Art Circles. He is a deputy to the first, second and third sessions of the National People's Congress, a member of the fifth session of the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC), a representative of the first session of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and a vice chairman of the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth sessions of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Comrade Ba Jin is one of the most influential literary masters in China since the May 4th New Culture Movement. He is also an outstanding novelist, essayist, translator, editor and publisher universally recognized. He has successively created Death, Rebirth, Riptide Trilogy (Home, Spring and Autumn), Love Trilogy (Fog, Rain and Electricity), Fire, Resting Garden, Cold Night and Fourth. He is familiar with English, French, Russian, German, Esperanto and other languages, and has translated more than a dozen world famous works. "Home" strongly accused and rebelled against the evils of China's feudal autocratic families, which once aroused countless young people's voices and encouraged them to get out of the feudal cage and participate in the revolution and social progress movement. Cold Night reflects the tragic fate of the bottom intellectuals and their families in the most difficult period of the Anti-Japanese War, appeals to the trampled little people, and expresses the conscience of a writer with social responsibility. From 1958 to 1962, People's Literature Publishing House published fourteen volumes of Collected Works of Ba Jin, which was the crystallization of his creative achievements before liberation. After the founding of New China, he went deep into factories, rural areas and old revolutionary base areas for many times to experience life, and went to the war-torn Korean battlefield twice, creating a large number of report features and essays, and publishing a collection of short stories reflecting the Korean War, such as Hero's Story and Li Dahai. The film Heroes and Children, based on his novel Reunion, aroused enthusiastic response from the audience. He and Jin Yi founded and edited Harvest, a large-scale literary publication, which is one of the most influential literary magazines in China. Over the past decades, a large number of outstanding writers' works have been published, which has had a far-reaching impact on the development of contemporary literature in China. When he was nearly eighty years old, he still overcame great pains and wrote five volumes of Random Thoughts with strong perseverance, which made his prose creation reach a peak in ideology and art. After 9' s, he published essays "Re-thinking Record" and edited and published "Complete Works of Ba Jin" (26 volumes). He is well-known at home and abroad for his passionate works and a childlike heart that loves the people of the motherland. A large number of outstanding works he created are precious wealth in the history of modern and contemporary Chinese literature. Many of his works have been translated into nearly 3 languages, including English, Russian, Japanese, French, German, Italian, Swedish, Korean and Esperanto, and have been widely spread all over the world. Comrade Ba Jin has served as an important leader of the Chinese Writers Association for a long time, attached importance to uniting writers, cared about the construction of writers' team, promoted the emergence of outstanding works, and made outstanding contributions to the prosperity of socialist literature.
Comrade Ba Jin is an outstanding social activist. After the liberation of the whole country, as a diplomatic envoy of the people, he visited abroad many times and participated in international cultural exchanges and other activities. In November, 195, he attended the Second World Congress for the Defence of Peace in Warsaw. Then he visited the former Soviet Union five times. In April 1961, he attended the Tokyo Emergency Conference of Asian Writers and served as the head of the China delegation. In August, 1962, he led a delegation to attend the 8th World Conference on the Prohibition of Atomic Bombs and Hydrogen Bombs held in Tokyo, Japan, and later visited Japan many times. In April 1979, he led a delegation of French writers to visit France for the first time, which set off a "Ba Jin fever" in Paris and greatly promoted the cultural exchanges between China and China. In the spring of 1981, he led a delegation to attend the Esperanto Congress held in Sweden. In the same year, he attended the Lyon-Paris Congress of the International PEN. In May 1984, as one of the seven cultural celebrities in the world, he was invited to attend the 47th International PEN Congress in Tokyo, Japan. He has made positive contributions to promoting world peace, developing friendly cooperation and international cultural exchanges between China and other countries. He has won many honorary titles at home and abroad. In 1982, he won the Dante International Award in Italy, the Legion of Honor in France in 1983, the honorary doctorate in literature from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1984, the honorary foreign academician of the American Academy of Literature and Art in 1985, the People's Friendship Medal of the former Soviet Union in 199, and the Asian Culture Award in Fukuoka, Japan. In 1993, he won the Senior Writers' Comfort Award from the Asian Chinese Writers' Literature and Art Foundation.
Comrade Ba Jin is a close friend of China * * * Production Party and a famous patriotic Democrat without party affiliation. For decades, he and China's * * * production party treated each other with courage and shared weal and woe. During the democratic revolution, he took an active part in progressive social activities. After the "September 18th Incident", he enthusiastically participated in the anti-Japanese national salvation movement, and served as the director of the All-China Anti-Japanese Association of Literary and Art Circles after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War. After the Southern Anhui Incident, he took part in signing against the Kuomintang dictatorship. He actively supported the idea of establishing a coalition government put forward by President Mao Zedong. As a representative of the first plenary session of China People's Political Consultative Conference, he participated in the great historical process of the founding of the People's Republic of China. After the founding of New China, he supported the leadership of China's * * * production party and socialism, and made great contributions to the literary career of New China. After entering the new period of reform and opening-up, he sincerely supported the line, principles and policies of China * * Production Party since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, and was sincerely pleased with the great achievements made in China's economic construction and social development. Despite his illness in his later years, he was still very concerned about state affairs. He actively called for and organized the construction of China Modern Literature Museum, and donated his savings of several hundred thousand yuan, remuneration for manuscripts and more than 8, books to the Museum. He participated in the establishment of the Chinese Literature Foundation and has been the president. He also donated money to Project Hope and social charity for many times. Because of its special contribution, in 1999, with the approval of the Committee for Naming Small Objects under the International Astronomical Union, asteroid 8315 was named Ba Jin Star. He served as the vice chairman of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference for five consecutive years, concerned about China's reform, opening-up and modernization, and the work of the CPPCC, and actively made suggestions and suggestions, which made important contributions to upholding and improving the multi-party cooperation and political consultation system led by the production party of China, to the development of the CPPCC cause and to the construction of Socialism with Chinese characteristics.
an anecdote about Ba Jin, a great literary master of the generation
■ Writing his illness into a novel
Ba Jin, who was sickly in his childhood, never actually went to college. At the age of 14, he finally got his grandfather's permission to enter an English cram school. Just one month later, he dropped out of school because of illness. In 1925, he went to Beijing to prepare for the Peking University exam, but when he was examined, he was found to have lung disease, so he missed out on Peking University. In Ba Jin's works, there are often descriptions of the hero suffering from lung disease or other diseases, and his mood and thoughts have changed because of his illness, such as Du Daxin in Death. When writing "Death", it was the key period for Ba Jin to treat lung disease and recuperate, and Du Daxin, the hero, had the idea of assassinating warlords to relieve his pain because of his lung disease.
■ "Home" brings home to Ba Jin
Ba Jin has always been committed to "Let everyone have food" and devoted himself to his career without taking care of his children's affairs. In 1936, Ba Jin became an idol in the hearts of young people with "Home", and many people pursued him. There was a female high school student who wrote him the most letters. They had been writing to each other for half a year, but they never met. Finally, the girl put forward in the letter: "The written talk is so harmonious, why can't we talk face to face?" The girl took the initiative to send a photo to Ba Jin, and then they made an appointment to meet in a cafe. After eight years of long-distance love, Ba Jin, who is not confused at the age of 2, got married with this girl named Xiao Shan. Xiao Shan, who is 13 years younger than Ba Jin, is the first and only woman who makes Ba Jin emotional.
■ Buy books without food
Ba Jin is famous for his love of books in the cultural circle. On the eve of the liberation of Shanghai in 1949, Ba Jin's family was already living in poverty, but he still had to buy books on a frugal basis. One day, Xiao Shan, who has always relied on him, couldn't help but say to him, "There is no money at home." Ba Jin, who doesn't know whether he has money at home or not, said, "Money is used to buy books. If you don't buy books, how can a book writer live? " The next day, he took the children to the bookstore again.
■ Ba Jin's son is "anonymous"
Li Xiaotang, Ba Jin's son, studied in Fudan University for four years. Many school leaders didn't know that he was Ba Jin's son. During graduation assignment, many people asked people to go through the back door for their children to get a good unit, but Ba Jin didn't say hello to anyone. After graduation, Li Xiaotang went to work in the Literature and History Office of the Shanghai Municipal Political Consultative Conference. He worked for more than 2 years without any complaints. On Ba Jin's 9th birthday, Chen Tiedi, Chairman of Shanghai CPPCC, visited Ba Jin in his apartment. When he saw his staff member Li Xiaotang, Chen Tiedi also asked strangely, "Why are you here?"
Ba Jin, a great literary master of China, died in Shanghai at 19: 6 on October 17th. At the age of 11.
Ba Jin's life:
Ba Jin was born in Zhengtongshun Street, Chengdu, Sichuan on November 25th, 194, and his original name was Li Yaotang. Chengdu, Sichuan, without party affiliation. In 1921, he was admitted to Chengdu Foreign Language College. He went to Shanghai in 1923, then to Nanjing, studied in the middle school attached to Southeast University and graduated in 1925. Living in France in 1927. Returning to China in 1928, he was the editor-in-chief of Shanghai Cultural Life Publishing House and Pingming Publishing House, and the editorial board of Literature Quarterly. I went to Japan in 1934. Returning to China in 1935, he served as the editor-in-chief of Cultural Life Publishing House in Shanghai, publishing "Cultural Life Series", "Literature Series" and "Small Literature Series". In 1936, he founded Literature Monthly with Jin Yi. During War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's period, he founded "Beacon" with Mao Dun, and he was a director of the National Anti-Enemy Association in Ren Zhonghua.
since p>195, he has served as vice-chairman and chairman of Shanghai Federation of Literary and Art Circles, member of Cultural Education Committee of State Council, member of Cultural Education Committee of East China Military and Political Commission, vice-chairman of China Federation of Literary Circles, vice-chairman and acting chairman of Chinese Writers Association, chairman of Shanghai Branch of Chinese Writers Association, vice-chairman of Shanghai CPPCC, editor-in-chief of Literature Monthly, Harvest and Shanghai Literature, chairman of Mao Dun Literature Award Committee, and China Literature Foundation. In March 1993, he was elected as the vice chairman of the 8th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. In December 1996, he was elected as the chairman of the fifth Committee of the Chinese Writers Association. In March 1998, he was elected as the vice chairman of the 9th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. In December 21, he was elected as the chairman of the sixth Committee of the Chinese Writers Association. In March 23, he was elected as the vice chairman of the 1th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He is a deputy to the First to Fourth National People's Congress and a member of the Standing Committee of the Fifth National People's Congress.
Ba Jin's bibliography
Death (novella) 1929, Kaiming
Anarchism and Practical Problems (theory) co-authored with Ke Gang, 1927, Shanghai Minzhong Society
From Capitalism to Anarchism (theory) 193, and Shanghai Free Bookstore
Die. New China
Fog (one of the trilogy of love, novella) 1931, New China
Dream of the Sea (novella) 1932, New China
Autumn in Spring (novella) 1932, Enlightened
Sailing (novella).